Ships are supposed to float above the water. Right? Well not this one. It spends all of its time just below the water on purpose. Doing a job that we never expected. Because who knew you’d need something like this… until you do.
Amazing.
A heavy-lift ship is a vessel designed to move very large loads that cannot be handled by normal ships.
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This is the Blue Marlin, a semi-submerging vessels capable of lifting another ship out of the water and transporting it.
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Like the USS Cole.
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Or, say, a dozen other transport ships.
Or this Oil Rig
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Or this one.
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This is the SBX-1. The Sea-Based X-Band Radar, which is a floating, self-propelled, mobile active electronically scanned array radar station designed to operate in high winds and heavy seas. It is part of the U.S. Defense Department Ballistic Missile Defense System.
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And it’s huge!
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These are drilling rigs with a gridwork of iron below them creating a giant footprint to stabilize the weight. They jack up out of the water with those large legs.
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This thing is like the Tonka truck of our childhood. The one toy that can do all of the coolest stuff. I mean… it moved a satellite to Hawaii from the West Coast? For real.
What do you think?
